Sometimes it's fun to watch an older film and tease out an early example of such-and-such a visual or narrative trope, whether it's to get a sense of how far we've come or to admire how far a particular director was ahead of their time. The trouble with Kiyohiko Ushihara's Ghost Cat and the Mysterious Shamisen is it doesn't offer much beyond the chance to play amateur detective. It's an intriguing history lesson, reasonably well-made and with some standout moments of aesthetic or technical flair, but the cast don't make too much of an impression and even for an early horror film, made in a simpler era, it's neither that tense nor especially frightening.Seijiro is a shamisen player, a fledgling professional lucky enough to have...
- 11/24/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Has another photo existed with so many great filmmakers in one shot? This was taken in 1936 on the occation of the creation of the Japan Film Directors Society.
Front row, from left:
Teinosuke Kinugasa (1896-1982)
Yoshinobu Ikeda (1892-1973)
Sadao Yamanaka (1909-1938)
Mansaku Itami (1900-1946)
Heinosuke Gosho (1902-1981)
Minoru Murata (1894-1937)
Shigeyoshi Suzuki (1900-1976)
Kenji Mizoguchi (1898-1956)
Second row, from left:
Tomotaka Tasaka (1902-1974)
Yasujiro Shimazu (1897-1945)
Hiroshi Shimizu (1903-1966)
Yutaka Abe (1895-1977)
Kiyohiko Ushihara (1897-1985)
Kajiro Yamamoto (1902-1974)
Yasujiro Ozu (1903-1963)
Tomu Uchida (1898-1970)
Third row, from left:
Mikio Naruse (1905-1969)
Kintaro Inoue (1901-1954)
(Via Vermillion and One Nights.)...
Front row, from left:
Teinosuke Kinugasa (1896-1982)
Yoshinobu Ikeda (1892-1973)
Sadao Yamanaka (1909-1938)
Mansaku Itami (1900-1946)
Heinosuke Gosho (1902-1981)
Minoru Murata (1894-1937)
Shigeyoshi Suzuki (1900-1976)
Kenji Mizoguchi (1898-1956)
Second row, from left:
Tomotaka Tasaka (1902-1974)
Yasujiro Shimazu (1897-1945)
Hiroshi Shimizu (1903-1966)
Yutaka Abe (1895-1977)
Kiyohiko Ushihara (1897-1985)
Kajiro Yamamoto (1902-1974)
Yasujiro Ozu (1903-1963)
Tomu Uchida (1898-1970)
Third row, from left:
Mikio Naruse (1905-1969)
Kintaro Inoue (1901-1954)
(Via Vermillion and One Nights.)...
- 9/25/2011
- MUBI
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